Let's overanalyze the sh!t out of The Wizard of Oz (long, ridiculous question/observation)

Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:55 pm

Posted by CocomoLSU

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Posted on 12/3/20 at 2:55 pm

Warning, this is long and overly ridiculous, but if you want to participate, welcome. But I caught some of this movie last week and man oh man, it stuck out to me how terrible of a person Glinda the "good" witch is. I'm not sure how someone can call themselves good when they create this much drama and bullshite.

I know it was (spoiler alert) all a dream in the end, but how badly did Glinda the good witch frick over Dorothy in Munchkinland?

She tells Dorothy that she killed the Wicked Witch of the East, which isn't even remotely true. And she tries to blame it on the munchkins ("the munchkins said someone killed the witch" .... "the munchkins want to know are you a good witch or a bad witch?") Um, lady, her house fell on top of her because of a fricking tornado. That's an act of God/Nature.

And she pesters Dorothy about being a witch multiple times even though Dorothy clearly explains she is not. She even is all cocky and arrogant about being "beautiful" because she's a "good witch."

So then the WWotW shows up. And Glinda goes onto say that the WWotWest is even worse. So she's scaring Dorothy already before she even gets to know this new lady.

So the slippers. I have to assume that the WWotE was single and unmarried, and also had no children. So, being her next of kin, the slippers should now be her sister's (the WWotW) property. And what does fricking Glinda do? She affixes them to Dorothy's feet without so much as even asking her if she wanted them. So she steals the WWotW's legal property and gives them away to someone else, and then basically prevents the owner from getting them. The WWotW even tries to explain that she's the only one who knows how to use the slippers and that they're of no use to Dorothy, which is further proof that they are a family heirloom of sorts, and they belong to her.

"Keep tight inside of them. Their magic must be very powerful, or else she wouldn't want them so badly." The way she smugly says this is annoying too, just trying to be a count to the WWotW for no reason. So maybe they are powerful, or maybe she just wants her property back to its rightful owner, bitch.

Glinda’s a total bitch. And let’s not forget that when the WWotW first shows up, all she wants to know is who killed her sister. Which is a reasonable reaction from someone who just lost a sibling in a horrific accident. It's Glinda that brings up the slippers in the first place, JUST so she can steal them and give them to Dorothy. So she sees someone grieving their recently-deceased sister, steals their lawful property, and gives it away. All in front of their face. What a fricking sociopath.

Then Glinda threatens the WWotW with "You have no power here...be gone before someone drops a house on you too," thus making it seem like Dorothy willfully dropped her house on the deceased witch as an act of aggression, and feeding the fire that is the WWotW’s unintentional hatred of Dorothy.

And keep in mind that Glinda is a witch too, so she could clearly give the shoes back since she's the one who put them on Dorothy’s feet in the first place. But what does she do? She talks mad shite to the Witch on Dorothy's behalf, and gets Dorothy into all kinds of shite without her even saying a word. And she has the gall to smile and act like everything is just fine and dandy, all while she's put Dorothy in the path of a distressed and loved family member of a recently-deceased lady. Most people in her situation would want revenge for their sister based on the manipulation tactics of Glinda.

Hell, the WWotW even calls Dorothy a "fine lady." She's a fricking saint compared to the sociopath that Glinda is.

AND frickING THEN THIS BITCH TELLS DOROTHY "I'm afraid you've made a rather bad enemy of the Wicked Witch." What the actual frick? No, bitch, YOU'VE made me her enemy. All I did was literally stand here and you made all of this happen!

And after all of that, she vaguely tells Dorothy that she has to go to some unknown place and speak to some unknown wizard. And when Dorothy, obviously confused and still in shock, asks how to get there, Glinda has the gall to ask her "Did you bring your broomstick with you?" Look, lady, I'm not a witch and you can kindly go frick yourself for continuing this “me being a witch” charade.

Glinda even tells her to never let the slippers off of her feet for a moment or else she'll be at the mercy of the WWotW. Well, then why the frick did you put them on my feet, GLINDA?! Do you get off in putting innocent people in harm’s way for fun? Dorothy even tries to ask her a question ("what happens if I...") and she just peaces out in her little bubble like a count and leaves Dorothy alone with zero help aside from some munchkins who will only take her to the border of their town, which is nowhere near the Emerald City.

Of all the supposed “good” characters in movie history, I feel like Glinda may actually be one of the worst people to ever exist in that space. She’s a complete and total psycho.

Anyway, that’s all the shite that was going around in my head the other day during the ten minutes of that scene.

Anybody else think she was as terrible as I do, or just want to inject their thoughts on this movie as a whole? We can make this an “overanalyze” thread if y’all want to.